Post #3495312

2026-06-30 18:08 UTC

And FDT asks: what action would my algorithm outputting make me expect to be the richest if it was settled at the start of time?

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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-06-30 19:48

FDT is a largely half-assed^1^ attempt at working backwards from “the timeless multidimensional robot god can’t blackmail me from the future if I’ve already made up my mind about stuff, very strongly like” into something more formalistic so he can pretend to address roko’s basilisk without acknowledging it. I think there’s also some “here’s how two robot gods who can perfectly emulate each other might work things out” sprinkled in, but worse than it sounds. They never got back to the peer reviewers

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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-07-01 01:13

Well you see, acausalrobotgod actually hates dealing with assholes tying themselves in knots trying to predict its predictions, so actually you really are better off with CDT if you don’t want to get 3^^^3 dust specks in your eyes for all eternity.

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